In their self-produced podcast the Finnish underground punk band Olimpia Splendid talk about existential loneliness, the economic depression, their own DIY approach, and their music video «Jukka-Pekka».

In the past decade, culture was longing for the nostalgic and authentic. The new Internet underground celebrates the contrary: hi-tech, artificiality and kitsch. Is it a critique of capitalism or a capitulation to it? Both and neither, says our author.

A lonely and sad man, sitting on a conveyor belt, scanning fizzy drinks and marshmallows. That’s (almost) all you see in the video «Jukka-Pekka» by Olimpia Splendid. A critique of the capitalist labor system: that’s how our author reads it.

Spain scholar Cande Sánchez Olmos from Alicante discusses video clips from her country which are advertising popular brands. This might become a problem for the viewer: he or she cannot easily distinguish commercials from cultural objectives.